The pressure-induced enhancement of superconducting properties of single-crystalline FeTe0.5Se0.5

Abstract

The pressure dependence, up to 11.3 kbar, of basic parameters of the superconducting state, such as the critical temperature (Tc), the lower and the upper critical fields, the coherence length, the penetration depth, and their anisotropy, was determined from magnetic measurements performed for two singlecrystalline samples of FeTe0.5Se0.5. We have found pressure-induced enhancement of all of the superconducting state properties, which entails a growth of the density of superconducting carriers. However, we noticed more pronounced increase in superconducting carrier density under pressure than that in the critical temperature what may indicate an appearance of a mechanism limiting the increase of Tc with pressure. We have observed that the critical current density increases under pressure by at least one order of magnitude.

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